Category Archives: Alumni
A virtual classroom brings law students in China and at Harvard together
It’s Wednesday night in Cambridge and Thursday morning in Beijing, and their seminar rooms are some 6,700 miles apart, but for 30 students from Harvard Law School and the Renmin University of China School of Law, common interests and videoconferencing equipment easily bridge these distances.
During this spring semester, students in a reading group taught by HLS Professor William P. Alford and an advanced negotiation skills class taught by Renmin Assistant Professor Alonzo Emery ’10 have come together electronically to consider the roles of China and the U.S. in a world order in flux.
Please visit the Harvard Law School website to read more.
A note (and a Note) from a Chayes Fellowship alumnus
As a Chayes International Public Service Fellow, David Palko (JD ’12) spent the summer of 2010 working at the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, at the end of the Court’s first judicial year. On his return to HLS, he drew on the insights he gained in Kosovo in writing “The Risks of ‘Continuing Situation’ Litigation in Transitional Political Systems: Lessons from the ECtHR for the Constitutional Court of Kosovo,” a Note published this summer in the Harvard Human Rights Journal (Vol. 25). You can read David’s Note here.
Looking back on the Chayes Program, David wrote “I am so grateful for the significant role it played in making my work possible.” He is currently clerking for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea to speak today at HLS
Young-Joon Mok LL.M. ’89, a Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea, will speak at Harvard Law School on “Constitutional Adjudication in the Republic of Korea,” on Tuesday, September 11, at noon, in Milstein West B, Wasserstein Hall. The event is sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, International Legal Studies and the Korea Institute.
In his talk, Mok plans to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized system of constitutional adjudication, and to describe some of the Court’s major decisions, including cases on relocating the Korean capital to Seoul and on the prohibition of Internet use for political expression. During his visit, he also plans to meet with faculty and students.
To read more about Justice Mok, please click here.
Michael Stein (JD ‘88), Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, on some recent work
“The Harvard Law School Project on Disability continues to work across the globe to implement disability human rights and develop disability civil society in collaboration with local partners. We have been providing human rights training, developing family support networks to assist children with disabilities enter school, assisting in legislation drafting, building disability law capacity in foreign universities, and bringing litigation in numerous countries, including Bangladesh, China, the Philippines and South Africa. Our reports on violence against women with disabilities in Bangladesh will be utilized by the United Nations and the US State Department in official reports. We also were involved in winning two significant cases, a European Court of Human Rights decision overturning Hungary’s blanket prohibition on voting by mentally disabled persons, and a South African High Court ruling upholding the right of children with intellectual disabilities to public education.”